The When We Were Young festival lineup is a Myspace emo kid's dream come true
The Y2K-heavy pop punk and emo festival is happening on October 22 and 23 in Las Vegas

If you feel nostalgic for the days when Gerard Way appeared on Tiger Beat, when AIM away messages with melodramatic lyrics described your mood, and when Hot Topic still had the red logo, there’s the perfect music festival for you. One that beats any Warped Tour lineup. When the When We Were Young festival poster was shared on Twitter, it felt too good to be true; some even thought it was a practical joke, or a Fyre Festival 2.0. But thankfully, it’s real!
On Saturday, October 22, 2022 in Las Vegas, you can see My Chemical Romance, Paramore, The All-American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, AFI, Avril Lavigne, Jimmy Eat World, Bright Eyes, Hawthorne Heights, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and other 2000s (and current day) emo favorites.
Besides My Chemical Romance blessing us with another opportunity to see them after postponing its reunion tour twice, Paramore gets to unveil the new music its been working on for the follow-up to its 2017 record, After Laughter.
But it’s not all nostalgic acts. Recent Fueled By Ramen signees Meet Me @ The Altar, who fit in perfectly with the Y2K-focused lineup, are performing. So are TikTokers who’ve jumped on the Myspace emo revival craze like Lil Huddy, Jxdn, and Nessa Barrett.